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18/4/2017

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You know we hear it all the time from breed clubs and the show ring, how they are working tirelessly to improve the health of their breed, but with the Cavalier King Charles spaniel I think we have a distinct smell of hypocrisy, as the Cavaliers Are Special website article Cavalier hearts: the difference between what breeders say and what they do reports: 
"From 2012 to 2016 inclusive these prize-winning Cavaliers produced 755 litters. Of these, 345 (46%) were bred by the Club Committee/Puppy Coordinator group. There were 229 litters with one or both parents under 2.5 years (30%). Of the 345 litters, 135 bred by the Club Committee/Puppy Coordinator group (39%) had one or both parents under 2.5. Non-compliance with age guidelines with breeders outside this group was 23% (94 of 410 litters)."
Which concludes, that a Cavalier bred by a breeder that is not a Cavalier Breed Club member is more likely being bred from both parents being at least 2.5 years old before being bred from, as the MVD breeding protocols recommends. So breeders not in the club, are following breeding guidelines better than club members.
Nearly all breeders that are club members are saying they health test and follow guidelines, but the statistics do not show this. The majority are not following the MVD breeding protocol, and hardly any of them use the BVA/KC  CM / SM scheme as you can see on the Breakdown of breeds submitted to the Scheme only 298 Cavaliers have been MRI scanned on the scheme since being set up in 2012, a fraction of the Cavaliers being used for breeding over that time.
​Why are they not using the BVA/KC CM/SM scheme? Because it was showing all Cavaliers to have CM, and they think it is a conspiracy by the BVA to automatically say all Cavaliers have CM, without even looking at the scan. I heard this on a Cavalier breeder forum a couple years ago. This is yet again another form of "Breed blindness." Breeders only like health tests, that tell them what they want to hear. A good example of breeders being fed what they want to hear, not what they should be hearing, is the video that the KC has put up on YouTube, which makes breeders think they can breed healthy dogs with Brachycephaly, and they are all raving about it. Especially the one Pug, who can breath without a constricted airway still at seven years old, that features in the video. Surely it should not be a bloody miracle that a dog can breath without constricted airways at 7 years old, but in Pug world apparently it's equal to the second coming, and surely the breeder must be looking at maybe a Knighthood or even some sort of Noble Prize, the way they are cooing over one Pug being able to breath without a restricted airway at 7 years old. 
Just a question though for the Cambridge research team, "Exactly how many dogs do you think it is okay to let suffer with having Brachycephaly, until you have the backbone to tell them to stop deliberately breeding dogs with this disease?"
Wow, the occasionally brachy dog does not have an obstructed airway, but don't worry about the fucked up teeth, eyes, brain space, or the fact it has either none or next to useless Nasal concha aka turbinates. ​Looks like it's not just breeders who suffer with "Breed blindness."
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